Neo-Nazi group adopts a highway in Delaware

These days, states will take any help they can get to maintain their roads.

In Delaware, a Neo-Nazi group was allowed to join the state’s Adopt-a-Highway program, but only on the condition that the word “Nazi” not appear on their highway signs over a two-mile stretch of rural Cedar Grove Road in Sussex County, The Wilmington News Journal reports.

The newspaper reports the state’s Department of Transportation blocked Edward McBride III’s application to adopt Cedar Grove Road under the name of the National Socialist Freedom Movement Nazi Party.

Citing concerns that the state could be seen as endorsing a hate group, DelDOT also rejected McBride’s counter-offer to have an abbreviated Adopt-a-Highway sign carry the name “NSFM88 Nazi Party.”

“His request to have the words ‘Nazi Party’ displayed on a state sign was denied because DelDOT chose not to associate the state with the term and its generally understood philosophy of advocating the denial of civil rights,” DelDOT spokesman Geoff Sundstrom said in an email.

Two Adopt-a-Highway signs have been installed on Cedar Grove Road, but they read “Freedom Party” instead, the newspaper reports. McBride, the group’s national commander, says he plans to clean up ditches along the road during his time off from work.

The group believes white Christians should be the only race and religion allowed in the U.S. and has about 45 members statewide, according to the newspaper.